Centralized vs Decentralized Platform for Political or Public Influence
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Centralized vs Decentralized PlatformOnce hyped as the tool that would free the people from dictatorship by providing all with a platform to air their opinion and organize resistance, Facebook’s appearance in the News lately has, increasingly often, been linked with breaches of privacy, with the wholesale distribution of fake news or as a tool used to exert undue foreign or domestic influence on democratic #elections.Though Facebook statistics are routinely used to measure participation and vote intentions, as well as a channel to influence #politics, its reliability for such purposes is questionable. Transparency and privacy issues coupled with the determinedly profit based model of Facebook does not make it a reliably neutral vehicle for opinions.Facebook algorithms and general (...)